Combination gift card and other article of merchandise



May 28, .1929. 1.714.774

COMBINATION GIFT CARD AND OTHER ARTICLE OF MERCHANDISE H. F GOLDSMITH Filed May 23, 1927 WIT/V655 Wm.

Patented May 28, 1929..

UNITE HENRY F. GOLDSMITH, OF PHILADELTEHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO FRIED- BERGER-AARON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF PHILADELIPHIA, PENNSYL- VANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA. I

GOMBINATION GIFT CARD AND OTHER ARTICLE OF IEERCHANDISE.

Application filed May 23, 1927. Serial no. 193,434.

The object of my invention is to provide a greeting card on which may be mounted another article of merchandise. The custom of sending artistic cards, containing appropriate expressions of sentiment, at the Christmas holidays, and on birthdays and other occasions, and also the custom of sending inexpensive gifts, are well established. By means of my invention, a gift and a greeting card may be combined in the same composite article of manufacture. I

An embodiment of my invention is shown in the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. 1 is a plan view of the new article of manufacture.

Fig. 2 is a, cross-section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line 3-8 of Fig. 4 1s a perspective view of the greeting card.

A sheet of paper, preferably of some substantial degree of thickness and stifiness, is bent along its center to form two hinged-together leaves a and Z). The rear leaf 6 is cut away to form two pairs of tabs 0, c, and (Z, (Z, integral with the rear leaf. Garters 1mm, may be pushed laterally into engagement with'the respective pairs of tabs.

Thefront leaf is cut away to form orifices.

e, 6, so positioned relatively to the two pairs of tabs that when sheet a folded over sheet I), the garters will project through the orifices. The orifices are of such width that the longi tudinal edges of garters, or any overhanging ornamental part thereof, may be made to overlie the leaf a at one or more points along, or entirely along, the marginal part of such leaf adjacent the orifice thus serving to hold the leaves together in close parallelism.

Leaf a, on its free edge, is provided with an integral hinged tab 9, which, when the leaves a and Z) are folded one upon the other, may be slipped through a slit it formed in leaf 6 near its free edge, thereby locking the two leaves together.

On the front face 3 of leaf a may be placed any picture, ornamentation, or verse appropriate to gift or greeting cards.

' It isnot intended to confine the invention to any precise number of orifices. ()ne or more may be provided, dependent on the number of articles of merchandise that are carried on the front face of'the rear leaf. The invention is obviously adapted to hold and display any light-weight wholly or partly flexible article, and particularly any article within the class of textiles, to which it is more especially adapted. The shape and size of the orifice or orifices in leaf a Wlll obviously vary with the shape and size of the article supported on a leaf 6.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

p 1. A. composite article of manufacture comprising an ornamental card and another article of merchandise; the card comprising two leaves hinged together, the front leaf having an opening therein, and thesaid article of merchandise being secured to the face of the rear leaf and pro ecting through the openm g when the leaves'are in folded relationship, thedimcnsions of the article of merchandise and the opening being so related that portions of the article projecting through the opening extend over the face of the front leaf beyond. the margin of the openin g thereby holding the leaves in folded relationship. r

, A composite article of manufacture comprising an ornamental card and another article of merchandise; the card comprising two leaves hinged together, the front leaf havin gan opening therein, and means on the rear leaf for positioning the article of merchandise whereby, when the leaves are in folded relationship. portions of the article will extend through the opening and over the face of the front leaf beyond the margin of the opening thereby holding the leaves'in folded relationship. 7

In testimony of which invention, I have hereunto set my hand at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on this 21st day of May, 1927.

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